Publications
Institutional Issues Concerning Industrial Policy for the Philippines: Learning from Other Countries
Mainstream economics had emphasized the need for macroeconomic stability, good governance (in general) and good investment climate (in general) to achieve economic development. This is precisely the strategy of the current administration in the Philippines in...
Philippine Trade Liberalization: Faith Damns, Losers Can Only Weep
Through successive tariff reform programs, the Philippines pursued a trade policy anchored on unilateral and deepening liberalization across all products. In 1981, as part of the country's structural adjustment program, the country commenced a tariff reform program...